[Advaita-l] Drishti-srishti alluded to by Shankara

[V Subrahmanian]

Drishti-srishti alluded to by Shankara

In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.3.31,32 the mantra says:

यत्र वा अन्यदिव
स्यात्तत्रान्योऽन्यत्पश्येदन्योऽन्यज्जिघ्रेदन्योऽन्यद्रसयेदन्योऽन्यद्वदेदन्योऽन्यच्छृणुयादन्योऽन्यन्मन्वीतान्योऽन्यत्स्पृशेदन्योऽन्यद्विजानीयात्
॥ ३१ ॥

सलिल एको द्रष्टाद्वैतो भवत्येष  ...32

 "When in the waking and dream states there is, as it were,  another, then
one can see the other, then one can smell the  other, then one can speak to
the other, then one can hear the  other, then one can think of the other,
then one can touch the  other, then one can know the other.

32.    "In deep sleep it becomes transparent like water, the witness,  one
and without a second. ..''

For the above, the bhashya is:

यत्र यस्मिन् जागरिते स्वप्ने वा अन्यदिव आत्मनो वस्त्वन्तरमिव अविद्यया
प्रत्युपस्थापितं भवति, तत्र तस्मादविद्याप्रत्युपस्थापितात् अन्यः अन्यमिव
आत्मानं मन्यमानः — असति आत्मनः प्रविभक्ते वस्त्वन्तरे असति च आत्मनि ततः
प्रविभक्तेः, अन्यः अन्यत् पश्येत् उपलभेत ; तच्च दर्शितं स्वप्ने प्रत्यक्षतः
— ‘घ्नन्तीव जिनन्तीव’ (बृ. उ. ४ । ३ । २०)
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इति ।
तथा अन्यः अन्यत् जिघ्रेत् रसयेत् वदेत् शृणुयात् मन्वीत स्पृशेत्
विजानीयादिति ॥

यत्र पुनः सा अविद्या सुषुप्ते वस्त्वन्तरप्रत्युपस्थापिका शान्ता, तेन
अन्यत्वेन अविद्याप्रविभक्तस्य वस्तुनः अभावात् , तत् केन कं पश्येत् जिघ्रेत्
विजानीयाद्वा ।

Translation: Swami Madhavananda:

When, in the waking or dream state, there is something else besides the
self, as it were, presented by ignorance, then one, thinking of oneself as
different
from that something-although there is nothing different from the self, no!
is there any self different from it can see something. This has been shown
by a reference to one's experience in the dream state in the passage, 'As
if he were being killed, or overpowered' ...

When, however, that ignorance which presents things other than the self is
at rest, in that state of profound sleep, there being nothing separated
from the
self by ignorance, what should one see, smell, or know, and through what?

This bhashya brings to the fore the perception of duality in waking and
dream and the non-appearance of duality in deep sleep. So, perception is
creation and non-perception is laya.  What is to be noted here is that
while the mantra never utters a word about jaagrat or sushupti, Shankara
introduces the idea of jaagrat/svapna and sushupti.

The above is from the book 'Sridakshinamurti stotram' Vol.1, p. 213. The
section there is: drishti-samasamayaa srishtih.

warm regards
subbu